Get the duration of audio input in torchaudio
When working with torchaudio for audio-oriented neural network implementations, one of the very first things we do is to get the metadata of the audio input using torchaudio.info.
Add a custom program/command launcher to Linux Mint panel
Panel is the perfect place in Linux Mint to put the launchers for programs/commands that are used most often. To create a launcher we need a .desktop file that describes some attributes of the program. Most installed GUI programs come with their launchers (.desktop files), but when we have a custom command/program of our own that we want to create the launcher for, the only thing we need to do is create a .desktop file.
Emacs recipe for starting tensorboard server
tensorboard is a quite popular among deep learning practitioners for experiment tracking. I also use it often, but what was bothering me for a while was to start the server (using tensorboard command) on one emacs buffer every time I want to track something. It gets tedious very quickly considering restarts as well. So, I've written a tiny elisp recipe to start/restart tensorboard directly from the (Python) file buffer (python-mode) in emacs.
Enable fingerprint authentication on Dell XPS 13 9310 running Linux Mint
Fingerprint authentication has always been flaky for Dell XPS series when running any GNU/Linux distro. I tried a bunch of things to enable the fingerprint authentication, and after a lot of trial-and-error I've succeeded in activating fingerprint based authentication on my Dell XPS 13 9310 running Linux Mint 21 (vanessa).